The cellist Ian Maksin first became well-known to South Florida audiences as the original cellist of the Delray String Quartet and principal cellist of the New World Symphony and Atlantic Classical Orchestra before he left the area for Chicago and new opportunities. The Russian-born Maksin returned Sunday afternoon for a recital with his duo partner, the Bulgarian pianist Ani … [Read more...]
Van Gogh, Degas at the Norton; student film contest; arts grants for the Kravis
It’s about to get crowded at The Norton Museum of Art. The exchange initiative that brought Monet’s Nymphéas to its walls last year is back with two French 19th-century masterpieces showing Thursday through April 17. A reciprocal loan from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vincent van Gogh’s The Poplars at Saint-Rémy (Les peupliers sur la Colline) was painted in 1889 while the … [Read more...]
South Florida-born filmmaker returns with ‘Seducing Charlie Barker’
Amy Glazer made her directorial debut as a teenager at Miami Beach Senior High School, where she directed another student named Mickey Rourke in his first play. Now a playwright, independent filmmaker and a professor of film, television, radio and theater at San Jose State University, she’s returned to South Florida this month to screen her new film, Seducing Charlie Barker, … [Read more...]
ArtsPreview 2010-11: The season in dance
There’s dance in a variety of styles, stars and stripes this season. The mix runs from modern dance to Irish, contemporary ballet to tango, flamenco to Philippine. A dance fan can catch a Russian ballet classic—featuring a cast of Russians to the ballet born—then make tracks for really rad, cutting-edge dance theater. Incoming to South Florida are popular touring companies … [Read more...]
Prima Trio revelatory in Flagler concert
PALM BEACH --- Chamber music has its origins in pieces written for intimate spaces, and that can mean a sedate concertgoing experience even when the art form leaves home to mingle with a larger crowd. But take that same kind of music and give it to three young, supremely talented, enthusiastic people, and you have a recital that's anything but a sonic substitute for Ambien. … [Read more...]